7 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
12714 | The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz] |
10710 | We accept substance, to avoid infinite backwards chains of meaning [Wittgenstein, by Potter] |
12743 | A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |